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title: Wait, what day were they celebrating, fam? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what day were they celebrating, fam? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden…

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Wait, what day were they celebrating, fam?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, they · **What happens:** wait, celebrate · **To what, where:** fam

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/872-pg27200-part83/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t5:1
# text = Wait, what day were they celebrating, fam?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	celebrating	celebrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **celebrate** | past · progressive | they | fam |  |  | day |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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golden wedding day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t5:o1:1
# text = golden wedding day
1	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
New Year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t5:o2:1
# text = New Year
1	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the anniversary day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t5:o3:1
# text = the anniversary day
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	anniversary	anniversary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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birthday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t5:o4:1
# text = birthday
1	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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